Summary
Donald Trump falsely claimed he had approval ratings of 69% and 71%, despite no public poll supporting those figures.
Recent surveys from Pew, Quinnipiac, Gallup, and others place his approval below 50%, with some showing him underwater.
Trump has a history of dismissing unfavorable polls as “fake” and even sued a news organization over poll results.
Experts suggest his political success relies on maintaining the illusion of widespread support despite declining approval ratings.
I’ll say that, at this point, you can’t even blame that fucking asshole. You can blame partisan media for not fact-checking this basic shit and having their dipshit viewers lap it up. It’s broken beyond repair.
Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.
This idea of fact checks being the antidote to trumpian fascism is straight from 2015. No amount of fact checking or “facts and logic” will slow fascism, and the roaring success of Trump’s campaign despite countless debate moderator fact checks, community notes, and politifacts should make that very clear.
You need to abandon this liberal idea that Americans turn fascist only because they have yet to be shown the “data” or “facts”. Liberalism is the idea that sitting a fascist down and showing them facts, logics, charts, statistics, and expert testimony will somehow magically convert them into a leftist.
The leftists framework is that fascism is the result of worsening material conditions and withering away of social safety nets, and the only way to fight fascism is to change material conditions or kill fascists. This is in direct contrast with liberalism - which posits that the ever-evolving, self-correcting marketplace of ideas is the end-all extinguisher of fascism. Look where that got us…
I think the guy you’re responding to was making a statement about the lack of fact-checking in the media in general, not with this piece in particular.
Oh, there is more than enough blame to go around.